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TRUE NAMES
Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow
Benjamin Rosenbaum oscillates from hard science fiction to lyrical literary fantasy, and all points between those two poles. I have been a fan of his work since his "Other Cities" short-shorts first began appearing, minute glimpses into fantastical places that were Borges-esque in their imaginative style. Since those days, Benjamin has gone on to receive nominations for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the BSFA Award, and the World Fantasy Award and has also placed in numerous recommended reading lists and Year's Best collections.
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger, and technology activist. He is the coeditor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), a contributor to such prestigious venues as Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, a former director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), and was recently named by Forbes as one of the twenty-five most influential "web celebs" for the second year in a row. In our field, he has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, the Sunburst Award for Best Canadian Science Fiction Book, and received nominations for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon awards. A champion of Creative Commons licenses, he encourages authors and publishers to give away free content online in a move that he says promotes and increases sales of the physical books (and his arguments are persuasive enough that this particular novella was made available as a podcast and audiobook prior to its print publication). It is impossible to be involved with either digital right